The following sessions will all be offered two times (except where noted) throughout the morning.Please choose the sessions that you'd like to attend based on your needs and interests.All sessions will operate on a 'first come, first serve' basis...
Session # 1:BYOD in the Senior Years Classroom
Facilitators:Adam Lister & Lauree Kopetsky
Location: Library 1E5 speakers wireless
SJASD has recently announced that they will be supporting a BYOD model in our senior years schools in the near future. The purpose of this session is to explore the opportunites & benefits of BYOD in the senior years classroom. We will also spend some time in discussion about concerns & challenges of implementation. Finally, participants will learn about practical tools and strategies that could be used in your classroom the very next day.
Note: A device is not required to attend the session, but if you have one (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.), please bring it with you.
Session # 2: Podcasting in Math (offered only once from 9:25-10:10)
Facilitators:Art Penning
Location: Room 2A1
We will look at 2 different ways to put your mathematics lessons or examples online. Smartboard recorders and tablet apps such as "Show Me" provide a great opportunity for both teachers and students to share their work. Not only can classroom flipping opportunities be explored but you might feel less stressed when multiple students need to miss class for those multiple science field trips.
Session # 3: Twitter and Flickr and Blogger; Oh My!
Facilitators:Tara McLauchlan
Location: Room 2B1
How can teachers use the digital world and its tools to help students move beyond the physical limitations of traditional teaching and learning? How can students tweet, post, and blog to leverage their learning? This session provides answers to those questions and ways to use tools like Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, Today's Meet and Instagram to empower students to create new texts through which they can share their knowledge with the digital world, and engage with the thinking of others. Tech newbies welcome, no experience needed!
Digital Handouts All of Tara's digital handouts are available through her iTunesU course. You can automagically enrolor sign up manually using this course code: DP4-R7N-A74
Session # 4: More Than a Map
Facilitators:Jerry Nemetchek
Location: Room 2D1
Get students to enter the digital age doing online projects. This session provides insight into Google Maps and beyond. Using tools such as Flickr, Google Docs and YouTube learn how to help students create media rich research projects that include embedded pictures and videos.
We will be demonstrating the use of visuals to enhance presentation for 2 types of digital projects, one for our 40SL and 40ST courses. This will include exploration and use of creative commons using Flickr, proper sourcing of images and quotes, effective placement of images and text on a ppt, and presentation skill sets.
Session # 6:Learning by Blogging
Facilitators:Julie Cordova
Location:Room 2A3speakers
Being able to read AND express yourself in a digital world is an important part of being literate in the 21st century. Blogging is a way of linking writing, reading, connecting information and learning together. We will consider ways of providing your students with an authentic learning opportunity, give them a global audience and engage them in conversation. Blogs are a platform that can support the SJASD's 5 C's, including digital citizenship and various contemporary literacies.
Session # 7: ADSI-E (Adolescent Development Screening Inventory for Education)
Facilitators:Sherry Ansloos
Location: Room 2A4
This workshop will explore ADSI-E (Adolescent Development Screening Inventory for Education), one of the tools that Guidance counsellors use in the Division to help support student's social/emotional and behavioural health. This tool provides a comprehensive profile of specific strengths and potential problem areas in the lives of students. If you are interested in learning about the work being done to support students with social, emotional and behaviour problems in the classroom, this is your workshop.
Session # 8: I Can Make a Copy, Right?
Facilitators:John Finch (Manitoba Education)
Location: Room 2A5
There is a new copyright bill and some very significant recent Supreme Court of Canada rulings regarding Fair Dealing. What has changed? A whole lot and most of it is good for teachers! Come hear the details and some ways of dealing with the challenge that copyright brings to your classroom.
Session # 9: The Best Camera is the One That's With You!
Facilitators:Mark Kutcy
Location: Room 2A6
It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. No one said any of those would be nice.... how to make your pictures suck less!
Whether you're sporting a full frame dSLR or an iPhone, your images have to have impact. Find out how composition and lighting can make your images stronger and more compelling, regardless of what you shoot with.
Many students walk around with a camera built into their phone that's as good as, or better than the camera your parents owned when you were a teen. Help them make the most of it and put it to better use for their studies or for fun.
Mobile phone cameras not required; but you can bring one if you have one.
Session # 10:Make Learning Personal; Use Video.
Facilitators:Rob Bell & Peter Roadley
Location:Room 2B7 speakers wireless
We will look at setting up Dropbox and DropItToMe accounts. We'll share how videos can be made with pictures to tell a story and talk about how these tools can be used to do that within a class setting. Participants will actually go through the process of sharing a video or picture and will learn how easy it can be done. We will talk about ways we have used these ideas and techniques in our Physical Education classes and discuss how a similar process might be used in other classes.
Session # 11: Words are Pictures: First We Learn to See (double session)
Facilitators:Gregory Chomichuk
Location:Room 2C1 MAX WHITE Board space
As classroom teachers the daunting task of engagement is often at odds with behaviour and the needs of a very diverse group of learners. How do we engage everyone, offer enrichment to the strong academic students and encouragement to the struggling student? How do we build communities of learners - not rooms filled with tiny islands of people only wanting to look out for themselves? How to we connect the Big Ideas to the lives of our students? How do we stuff all that into a gradebook?
To become a good writer there are two things you must do: Keep Reading. Keep Writing.
To be a good student you only need to do one: Care about what you are being taught.
The question was: How do I get all three things happening in the classroom as often as possible?
This workshop will demonstrate a simple interactive framework that can be used in any subject where: Students are wanted to engage with the course material, generate original texts, illustrations and ideas relevant to their subject while building communication skills, problem solving ability and organization. It can be (and has been) used with five students or thirty-five. You will require no special equipment technology or technical know how. If you can read and write and have a whiteboard your classroom is already equipped. (Did I mention it's fun? It is.)
The following sessions will all be offered two times (except where noted) throughout the morning.Please choose the sessions that you'd like to attend based on your needs and interests.All sessions will operate on a 'first come, first serve' basis...
Session # 1: BYOD in the Senior Years Classroom
Facilitators: Adam Lister & Lauree Kopetsky
Location: Library 1E5 speakers wireless
SJASD has recently announced that they will be supporting a BYOD model in our senior years schools in the near future. The purpose of this session is to explore the opportunites & benefits of BYOD in the senior years classroom. We will also spend some time in discussion about concerns & challenges of implementation. Finally, participants will learn about practical tools and strategies that could be used in your classroom the very next day.
Note: A device is not required to attend the session, but if you have one (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.), please bring it with you.
Digital Handouts
Digital Handouts and notes available here.
Session # 2: Podcasting in Math (offered only once from 9:25-10:10)
Facilitators: Art Penning
Location: Room 2A1
We will look at 2 different ways to put your mathematics lessons or examples online. Smartboard recorders and tablet apps such as "Show Me" provide a great opportunity for both teachers and students to share their work. Not only can classroom flipping opportunities be explored but you might feel less stressed when multiple students need to miss class for those multiple science field trips.
Session # 3: Twitter and Flickr and Blogger; Oh My!
Facilitators: Tara McLauchlan
Location: Room 2B1
How can teachers use the digital world and its tools to help students move beyond the physical limitations of traditional teaching and learning? How can students tweet, post, and blog to leverage their learning? This session provides answers to those questions and ways to use tools like Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, Today's Meet and Instagram to empower students to create new texts through which they can share their knowledge with the digital world, and engage with the thinking of others. Tech newbies welcome, no experience needed!
Digital Handouts
All of Tara's digital handouts are available through her iTunesU course. You can automagically enrolor sign up manually using this course code: DP4-R7N-A74
Session # 4: More Than a Map
Facilitators: Jerry Nemetchek
Location: Room 2D1
Get students to enter the digital age doing online projects. This session provides insight into Google Maps and beyond. Using tools such as Flickr, Google Docs and YouTube learn how to help students create media rich research projects that include embedded pictures and videos.
Session # 5: Show & Tell Me What You've Learned
Facilitators: Shannon Walterson & Debbie Wake
Location:Room 2A2 speakers SMARTboard internet
We will be demonstrating the use of visuals to enhance presentation for 2 types of digital projects, one for our 40SL and 40ST courses. This will include exploration and use of creative commons using Flickr, proper sourcing of images and quotes, effective placement of images and text on a ppt, and presentation skill sets.
Session # 6: Learning by Blogging
Facilitators: Julie Cordova
Location:Room 2A3 speakers
Being able to read AND express yourself in a digital world is an important part of being literate in the 21st century. Blogging is a way of linking writing, reading, connecting information and learning together. We will consider ways of providing your students with an authentic learning opportunity, give them a global audience and engage them in conversation. Blogs are a platform that can support the SJASD's 5 C's, including digital citizenship and various contemporary literacies.
Session # 7: ADSI-E (Adolescent Development Screening Inventory for Education)
Facilitators: Sherry Ansloos
Location: Room 2A4
This workshop will explore ADSI-E (Adolescent Development Screening Inventory for Education), one of the tools that Guidance counsellors use in the Division to help support student's social/emotional and behavioural health.
This tool provides a comprehensive profile of specific strengths and potential problem areas in the lives of students. If you are interested in learning about the work being done to support students with social, emotional and behaviour problems in the classroom, this is your workshop.
Session # 8: I Can Make a Copy, Right?
Facilitators: John Finch (Manitoba Education)
Location: Room 2A5
There is a new copyright bill and some very significant recent Supreme Court of Canada rulings regarding Fair Dealing. What has changed? A whole lot and most of it is good for teachers! Come hear the details and some ways of dealing with the challenge that copyright brings to your classroom.
Session # 9: The Best Camera is the One That's With You!
Facilitators: Mark Kutcy
Location: Room 2A6
It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. No one said any of those would be nice.... how to make your pictures suck less!
Whether you're sporting a full frame dSLR or an iPhone, your images have to have impact. Find out how composition and lighting can make your images stronger and more compelling, regardless of what you shoot with.
Many students walk around with a camera built into their phone that's as good as, or better than the camera your parents owned when you were a teen. Help them make the most of it and put it to better use for their studies or for fun.
Mobile phone cameras not required; but you can bring one if you have one.
Session # 10: Make Learning Personal; Use Video.
Facilitators: Rob Bell & Peter Roadley
Location:Room 2B7 speakers wireless
We will look at setting up Dropbox and DropItToMe accounts. We'll share how videos can be made with pictures to tell a story and talk about how these tools can be used to do that within a class setting. Participants will actually go through the process of sharing a video or picture and will learn how easy it can be done. We will talk about ways we have used these ideas and techniques in our Physical Education classes and discuss how a similar process might be used in other classes.
Session # 11: Words are Pictures: First We Learn to See (double session)
Facilitators: Gregory Chomichuk
Location:Room 2C1 MAX WHITE Board space
As classroom teachers the daunting task of engagement is often at odds with behaviour and the needs of a very diverse group of learners. How do we engage everyone, offer enrichment to the strong academic students and encouragement to the struggling student? How do we build communities of learners - not rooms filled with tiny islands of people only wanting to look out for themselves? How to we connect the Big Ideas to the lives of our students? How do we stuff all that into a gradebook?
To become a good writer there are two things you must do: Keep Reading. Keep Writing.
To be a good student you only need to do one: Care about what you are being taught.
The question was: How do I get all three things happening in the classroom as often as possible?
This workshop will demonstrate a simple interactive framework that can be used in any subject where: Students are wanted to engage with the course material, generate original texts, illustrations and ideas relevant to their subject while building communication skills, problem solving ability and organization. It can be (and has been) used with five students or thirty-five. You will require no special equipment technology or technical know how. If you can read and write and have a whiteboard your classroom is already equipped. (Did I mention it's fun? It is.)